In winter of 44/45, B-17 ‘Mary Alice’ flies low over a typical English landscape on her way home. ‘Mary Alice’ was assigned to 401st BG and flew from Deenethorpe airfield, Northamptonshire. She was named after the pilots mother!

‘Canberra’ PR 9 of No.39 Squadron lands after another mission in Afghanistan. After this deployment the last 3 Canberra’s in RAF service were retired.
On the occasion of the Queen’s 80th Birthday, Dave Pipes flew the Canberra, with the Red Arrows over Buckingham Palace. He is also the last pilot in the RAF to have flown the Canberra.

Stanier Class 8F of Wellingborough shed awaits its crew on another night turn from Wellingborough to Brent coal sidings in London. Each print comes with signatures from two Wellingborough shed workers.

On December 15th 1944, Major Alton Glenn Miller of the United States Army departed RAF Twinwood Farm for France. Neither he, the pilot or the second passenger were ever seen again.
*Text as typed on the print border.
Print #6 in The Twinwood Collection.

The original painting was commissioned by the RAF and Army Air Corps at RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland to mark the end of Operation Banner. All of the ‘troubles’ in N. Ireland came under Operation Banner which was the longest running operation in British military history.